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Authors: Jennifer Scoggin, Hannah Schneewind
Grades K-5
Trusting Readers is an essential and accessible guide that provides teachers with the inspiration, information, and tools needed to grow enthusiastic independent readers. Jen and Hannah put the independence back into independent reading—and bolster that independence with collaboration and support. They offer a clear definition and vision of independent reading, while helping teachers craft reading experiences centered around students’ engagement, instructional needs, and identities as readers.
Authors: Rebecca Bellingham
Grades K-8
The Artful Read-Aloud is a user-friendly guide that builds a bridge between the artistic world and the classroom. Rebecca Bellingham draws on her experience as a performer, teaching artist, classroom teacher, and literacy coach to make explicit connections between the arts and reading aloud, providing dozens of easy moves teachers can make that can enhance, elevate, and deepen the impact of interactive read-alouds.
Authors: Kathy Collins, Matt Glover
Grades PreK-1
I Am Reading reminds us that we’re teaching children, not reading levels. Kathy and Matt show how to nurture, nudge, and instruct young readers to make meaning in any text, whether or not they are reading the words
Authors: Laura Robb, Tim Rasinski, David Harrison
Grades 3-5
Accelerate learning gains using differentiated instruction! This professional development resource supports teachers with easy-to-implement lessons that strengthen students’ reading skills and comprehension.
Authors: Kylene Beers
Grades 4-12
Reading matters because it changes us. It changes the way we think, the way we see the world, the way we process information and dream new thoughts.
This new edition of When Kids Can’t Read—What Teachers Can Do is a guidebook for those who teach students who struggle with reading. Extensively rewritten by Kylene Beers, it offers practical teaching scaffolds and strategies in the areas of comprehension, vocabulary development, fluency, and engagement.
Authors: Jennifer Serravallo
Grades K-8
The anchor charts, tools, and other visuals from 300+ strategies in The Reading Strategies Book 2.0 are now available in a tabletop flip chart to save you preparation (and drawing) time! In this companion charts flip chart, you’ll find the enlarged versions of every chart in an easy-to-use trifold stand. Ready to use at your table for small groups or conferring, or you can slide a chart under a document camera and project it on SMART Board™ when teaching a whole-class lesson.
Authors: Jennifer Serravallo
Grades K-8
The Reading Strategies Book 2.0 is a trusted, research-based companion for any K–8 reading classroom—no matter your curriculum, subject area, or instructional approach. Connect crucial research to powerful practice, whether you need engaging lessons for whole-class teaching, support for small-group instruction, ideas for intervention, or enhancements for a reading program. The friendly design makes it easy to find strategies that meet every student where they are now.
Authors: Kelly Gallagher
Grades 6-12
Teaching practices to build students' prior knowledge, a key component to reading comprehension.
Authors: Jennifer Serravallo
Grades 1-8
Understanding Texts & Readers helps you take the next step from Jen's Reading Strategies Book 2.0. She connects comprehension goals to text levels and readers' responses. As you learn more about how comprehension works over a range of texts, you'll find text complexity simpler, clarify comprehension, and make great book matches, as you choose just-right strategies to share with readers.
Authors: Jennifer Serravallo
Grades K-8
The Reading Strategies Book 2.0 is a trusted, research-based companion for any K–8 reading classroom—no matter your curriculum, subject area, or instructional approach. Connect crucial research to powerful practice, whether you need engaging lessons for whole-class teaching, support for small-group instruction, ideas for intervention, or enhancements for a reading program. The friendly design makes it easy to find strategies that meet every student where they are now.
Authors: Irene Fountas, Gay Su Pinnell
Grades PreK-8
There has never been a more comprehensive resource available to teachers that does what The Continuum does – provide specific behaviors and understandings that are required at each level for students to demonstrate thinking within, beyond, and about the text. These behaviors and understandings describe what students will be expected to do in order to effectively read and understand the text.
The Fountas & Pinnell Literacy Continuum, Second Edition is the essential tool to guide your assessment, activate responsive teaching, and support your students on their language and literacy journey.
Authors: Irene Fountas, Gay Su Pinnell
Grades PreK
100 explicit lessons designed to cultivate children’s natural curiosity about the sounds of language and encourage their active engagement in learning how sounds, letters, and words work. Sounds, Letters, and Words in PreK will give prekindergarteners a strong foundation in literacy that will prepare them for kindergarten and beyond. Each lesson is developmentally appropriate, based on current research, interactive to keep children engaged, and rooted in play.
Authors: Andrea McCarrier, Irene C. Fountas, Gay Su Pinnell
Grades K-3
Interactive Writing offers powerful first teaching designed to accelerate and support children’s critical understanding of the writing process. In a clear, step-by-step format, the authors show how teachers can use interactive writing to teach a range of foundational literacy skills.
Authors: Linda Rief
Grades 5-12
Helping students put words on a page can be hard enough. “I don’t have anything to write about!” they say. And when writing does happen, how do you help them develop these ideas into more effective pieces?
A powerful tool to jumpstart writing
Authors: Sarah M. Zerwin
Grades 6-12
How a single teacher can “go gradeless” in ways that lead students to becoming better readers, writers, and thinkers.
Authors: Lucy Calkins
Grades K-8
In Teaching Writing, Lucy Calkins shares the depth and breadth of her knowledge, from the initial research that launched some of the biggest ideas still foundational to the teaching of writing today, to her newest insights gleaned from decades of work and study in thousands of classrooms across the globe.
Authors: Carl Anderson, Matt Glover
Grades K-8
50 action steps teachers can take to improve their writing instruction and achieve better results.
Authors: Susan Harris MacKay
Grades K-3
How to create entry points for beginning writers by amplifying the relationship between play, art, and writing.
Authors: Jennifer Serravallo
Grades K-8
Find out from Jennifer Serravallo how just a few minutes of purposeful, responsive teaching can have a big impact when you teach writing in small groups. Great as your small-groups go-to resource and even better when paired with Jen's Writing Strategies Book.
Authors: Jennifer Serravallo
Grades K-8
Whether you use a national literacy program, a scripted writing program, the writing exercises in your basal, or any other approach, you’ll discover a treasure chest of ways to work with whole classes, small groups, or individual writers.
Authors: Jennifer Serravallo
Grades K-8
Whether you use a national literacy program, a scripted writing program, the writing exercises in your basal, or any other approach, you’ll discover a treasure chest of ways to work with whole classes, small groups, or individual writers.
Authors: Jennifer Serravallo
Grades K-8
The anchor charts, tools, and other visuals from 300 strategies in The Writing Strategies Book are now available in a tabletop flip chart to save you preparation (and drawing) time! In the companion charts flip chart, you'll find the enlarged versions of every chart corresponding to the 300 strategies in an easy-to-use trifold stand. Ready to use at your table for small groups or conferring, or you can slide a chart under a document camera and project it when teaching a whole-class lesson.
Authors: Jamee Petersen
Grades K-5
These twenty-three classroom-tested games can be played successfully by learners on their own or during math workshop. You’ll find all-time favorites like Connect Four and Compare. You’ll also discover games that you’ve likely not encountered before—as well as twists on some of your personal favorites!
Authors: Jamee Petersen
Grades K-5
These thirty-three classroom-tested games can be played successfully by learners on their own, during math workshop, or at math stations. You’ll find all-time favorites like Circles and Stars, Leftovers, Cross Out Singles, and Tens Go Fish. You’ll also discover games that you’ve likely not encountered before—as well as twists on some of your personal favorites!
Authors: Jennifer Lempp
Grades K-6
Math Workshop is an essential resource for any teacher, school, or district looking to shift or enhance how math is taught. It includes lesson plan examples and templates that will help you visualize and implement a math workshop model in any classroom.
Math workshop supports student engagement and growth in the math classroom. It is structured around accessible mathematical tasks, open-ended problem solving, small-group instruction, student choice, and time for practicing important concepts throughout the year.
Grades 5-6
Minilessons for Operations with Fractions, Decimals, and Percents is a resource of approximately 75 minilessons that you can choose from throughout the year. In contrast to investigations, which constitute the heart of the math workshop, the minilesson is more guided and more explicit, designed to be used at the start of math workshop and to last for ten to fifteen minutes. Each day, no matter what other materials you are using, you might choose a minilesson from this resource to help your students develop efficient computation. You can also use minilessons with small groups of students as you differentiate instruction.
Grades 2-3
This resource guide can be helpful in grades 2-3 as you work with addition and subtraction beyond the basic facts. These minilessons are crafted with computation problems that, when placed together, are likely to generate discussion of certain strategies or big ideas that are landmarks on the landscape of learning for addition and subtraction, particularly with two and three digits. The guide contains approximately 75 minilessons, structured as strings of related problems.
Authors: Pamela Weber Harris
Grades 6-10
Teachers of older students are often frustrated by the lack of number sense their students have. Informed by research and classroom experience, this book details an instructional approach focused on developing number sense and understanding in higher math for all students.
Authors: Sherry D. Parrish
Grades K-5
Number Talks is the best-selling resource that has helped hundreds of thousands of educators use number talks in their classrooms. This dynamic multimedia resource was created in response to the requests of teachers—those who want to implement number talks but are unsure of how to begin and those with experience who want more guidance in crafting purposeful number talk problems.
This resource introduces what a classroom number talk is, how to lead meaningful number talk conversations, and how to build on students' mathematical reasoning to grow their understanding of whole number concepts.
Authors: John Tapper
Grades K-8
Solving for Why offers educators the tools and guidance essential for successfully solving for why students struggle with mathematics. The step-by-step, RTI (Response to Intervention) – like approaches, focused on assessment and communication with students, help teachers gain insight into student understanding in a remarkably different way that recipe-type approaches that assume the same solution applies to learners with similar struggles.
Authors: Patsy Kanter, Steven Leinwand
Grades K-5
Numerical fluency is about understanding, not memorization.
In Developing Numerical Fluency, Patsy Kanter and Steven Leinwand take a fresh look at a commonly-asked question: “How do I teach number facts so my students know them fluently?” They apply their decades of experience teaching mathematics to rethinking effective fluency instruction.
Authors: Sherry D. Parrish, Ann Dominick
Grades 3-6
Number Talks: Fractions, Decimals, and Percentages is the essential companion to the first Number Talks book. This dynamic multimedia resource was created in response to the requests of teachers—those who want to implement number talks but are unsure of how to begin and those with experience who want more guidance in crafting purposeful number talk problems.
Authors: Susan B. Empson, Linda Levi
Grades 1-6
This book lays a foundation for the conceptual understanding fractions and decimals. It shows how the same kinds of intuitive knowledge and sense making that provides the basis for children’s learning of whole number arithmetic can be extended to fractions and decimals.
Authors: Nancy Steineke
Grades 4-12
Reduce the stress of classroom management and improve student achievement by threading community-building activities throughout the semester.
Authors: Ellin Oliver Keene
Grades K-8
What motivates us to learn? We all want to promote student engagement, but we often struggle with getting our students excited about and responsible for their own learning. In Engaging Children, Ellin Oliver Keene explores the question: What can we do to encourage motivation for students or, better yet, their engagement?
Authors: Sara K. Ahmed
Grades 4-12
Being the Change is based on the idea that people can develop skills and habits to serve them in the comprehension of social issues. Sara K. Ahmed identifies and unpacks the skills of social comprehension, providing teachers with tools and activities that help students make sense of themselves and the world as they navigate relevant topics in today’s society.
Authors: Kelly Gallagher, Penny Kittle
Grades 6-12
180 Days represents the collaboration of two master teachers—Kelly Gallagher and Penny Kittle—over an entire school year: planning, teaching, and reflecting within their own and each other’s classrooms in California and New Hampshire. Inspired by a teacher’s question, “How do you fit it all in?” they identified and prioritized the daily, essential, belief-based practices that are worth spending time on. They asked, “Who will these students be as readers and writers after a year under our care?”
Authors: Cornelius Minor
Grades K-12
In We Got This Cornelius Minor describes how this conversation moved him toward realizing that Listening to children is one of the most powerful things a teacher can do. By listening carefully, Cornelius discovered something that kids find themselves having to communicate far too often. That “my lessons were not, at all, linked to that student’s reality.”
Authors: Berit Gordon
Grades K-12
The Joyful Teacher provides a structure to help K–12 teachers across all content areas reflect on their professional development needs, set goals that work, and access practical strategies that will help them meet those goals. While anyone can pop in and pull out strategies for what’s needed right now, the goals and strategies are organized in a progression to set teachers up for the most success and highest impact. Coaches and administrators will also find numerous ways to support the teachers they work with and help them feel and be effective.
Authors: Ernest Morrell, Antero Garcia
Grades 6-12
In Tuned-in Teaching, Antero Garcia and Ernest Morrell offer a road map for creating a classroom that is transformative for your students and revitalizing for you. They explain why students play an integral role in turning classrooms into spaces for greater engagement and innovation. By tuning in to youth culture and the lives of students, we become more connected to their needs and ways of learning.
Authors: Christine Hertz, Kristine Mraz
Grades K-5
Christine Hertz and Kristi Mraz show how to take that single, heartfelt value and create a cohesive, highly effective approach to teaching that addresses today’s connected, collaborative world. With infectious enthusiasm, hard-won experience, and a generous dose of humor, Kids First from Day One shows exactly how Christine and Kristi build and maintain a positive, cooperative, responsive classroom where students engage deeply with their learning and one another.
Authors: Penny Kittle, Kelly Gallagher
Grades 6-12
Penny Kittle and Kelly Gallagher extend their work in 180 Days: Two Teachers and the Quest to Engage and Empower Adolescents by taking a deep dive into four essential studies. Their aim is to move beyond compliance and formula, and to develop students’ agency, independence, and decision-making skills. These four practices, they argue, have the power to transform students’ relationship with literacy—and truly prepare them for the more demanding work of college.
Authors: Berit Gordon
Grades K-12
Goals and strategies for new teachers and the mentors who support them. Learn strategies for time management, engaging students, lesson planning, classroom management, and more. Whether you're new to the profession, play a supporting role in helping new teachers, or just feeling overwhelmed with teaching, The New Teacher Handbook is the perfect resource to meet the challenges ahead.
Authors: Liz Kleinrock
Grades 2-8
Each chapter in Start Here, Start Now addresses many of the questions and challenges educators have about getting started, using a framework for tackling perceived barriers from a proactive stance. Liz answers the questions with personal stories, sample lessons, anchor charts, resources, conversation starters, extensive teacher and activist accounts, and more. We can break the habits that are holding us back from this work and be empowered to take the first step towards reimagining the possibilities of how antibias antiracist work can transform schools and the world at large.
Authors: Pauline Gibbons
Grades K-8
The bestselling Scaffolding Language, Scaffolding Learning helped tens of thousands of mainstream elementary teachers ensure that their English language learners became full members of the school community with the language and content skills they needed for success. In the highly anticipated Second Edition, Pauline Gibbons updates her classic text with a multitude of practical ideas for the classroom, supported by the latest research in the field of ELL/ESL.
Authors: Renee Dinnerstein, Kathy Collins
Grades PreK-2
In Choice Time, Renée gives you everything you need to set up choice-time centers that promote inquiry-based, guided play in your classroom. Renée summarizes the research, describing the different kinds of play and why they are important. Then she dives into the nitty gritty, providing:
- blueprints for six proven choice-time centers, with variations
- a guide to arranging your classroom space to maximize play’s value and support the child's growing independence
- scheduling suggestions for different grade levels
- ideas to connect centers to the curriculum, giving children greater agency in designing and planning centers.
Even though there is an unending supply of science textbooks, kits, and other resources, the practice of teaching science is more challenging than simply setting up an experiment. In Teaching Science for Understanding in Elementary and Middle Schools, Wynne Harlen focuses on why developing understanding is essential in science education and how best to engage students in activities that deepen their curiosity about the world and promote enjoyment of science.
Authors: China Harvey, Lisa Herzig
Grades 6-12
Teaching Beyond the Timeline is a practical guide for teachers looking to transform history in their classroom. China Harvey and Lisa Herzig share the rationale and research behind shifting to a thematic approach and the essential ingredients for a thematic course, including:
- Demonstrating historical relevance and engaging through current events
- Centering identity and inclusion
- Using an inquiry-based approach
This book represents a new way to think about science education for young children. Based on the growing understanding that even the littlest learners are powerful thinkers and theory makers, it identifies important science inquiry skills and concepts appropriate for the very young. What's more, it makes a strong case for integrating science into the curriculum right from the start, creating a context for the development of language, mathematical thinking, and social skills.
Authors: Valerie Bang-Jensen
Grades K-5
Literacy Moves Outdoors provides the rationale, resources, and information to help you get started, all organized to help maximize learning and connect what you do outside to what you teach inside. Explore and adopt practices that engage students, meet their interests and needs, and give them the tools to communicate and discover themselves and the world around them.
Authors: Erick J. Herrmann
Grades K-12
Learn how to embed social-emotional learning (SEL) into everyday instruction with useful strategies. This effective teacher resource, authored by SEL expert Erick Herrmann, dives into each of CASEL's core competencies (self-awareness, self-management, social-awareness, relationship skills, and responsible decision-making) and explains how the related skills and behaviors (including compassion, kindness, resilience, empathy, and gratitude) are associated with them, giving teachers the insights, they need to integrate SEL.